37
Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.
38
And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests' chambers pulled down;
39
They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,
40
And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
41
Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.